As adopted in all our recent guides, here’s a quick map for the entire “Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide” . No promises of course on the final scope. We might end up merging some chapters, deleting some other, etc. But this is our current intent. Feedback very welcome!

Here’re some initial sketches of how Tailspin would look like and the navigation patterns we want to implement: Navigation: Home will list all available surveys to this particular user. Take Survey, allows to start one particular survey from the home page. Many can be taken at the same time. Survey Details shows metadata about a…

Here’s a high level overview of the major components we are planning for Talspin Surveys. A few notes: The backend is essentially an extension to Tailspin surveys as described an implemented in the Windows Azure Architecture Guide (Part 2). There’s now a new services head (an OData/JSON API) that is used by the devices. Tailspin…

I’ve just uploaded to CodePlex updated samples for the Claims based Identity Guide. This have all been adapted to work on Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0 and MVC 2.0. See here for downloading the bits. From the release notes: Required configuration changes for IIS, DevFabric and Windows Azure Both solutions 1-SingleSignOn and 5-WindowsAzure involve the…

Now that the Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 is “done” (Done = content is complete and production is taking place. Production = index, covers, PDF conversion, etc), our team is ready for the next adventure. Our fictitious ISV, Tailspin, is very innovative and wants to stay on the latest and greatest. Now they…

Update: I just found this comprehensive guide for setting up federation with CA SiteMinder. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff754295(WS.10).aspx How it works (Full size diagram here) End to end demo (Video here) Technorati Tags: Federated Identity,SSO,Federation Provider,Identity Provider,a-Expense,ADFS,Interop,WIF,SiteMinder

As I announced some time ago, we’ve been working on a few labs that demonstrate interoperability with 3rd party identity components. More specifically: CA SiteMinder 12.0 IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager 6.2 Sun OpenSSO 8.0 The general architecture of the lab follows what is described in chapter 4 of the Claims Guide and is illustrated…